Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-01-12

| impertinence, and pounded of misfortune
The brightest life must have its shadow
| and the smoothest path its thorns. On tb
happiest brood the hawk pounces. No e.
| cape from trouble of some kind. Will
glorious John Milton was losing his eye
sight, he heard that Salmasius was glad c
it. While Sheridan's comedy was bein
| nacted in Drury Lane Theatre, Cumbel
and, his enemy, sat growing at it in th
stage-box. While Bishop Cooper was SUI
rounded by the favor of learned men hi
wife took his lexicon manuscript, the resul
| Of long life of anxiety and toll, and thre'
| it into the fire. Misfortune, trial, vexation
for almost everyone. Pope, applauded Q
| all the world, has a stoop in the shoulde
that annoys him so much that he has tuu
| mel dug, so that he may go unobserved fron
garden to grotto, and from grotto to garden
Cano, the famous Spanish artist, is dis
gusted with the cruclfix that the prizes
holds before him, because it is such a poo
specimen of sculpture. And SO, sometime
through learned MANAGE, and sometime
thrsugh physical distresses, aye, in tel
thousand ways, troubles come to harass AMI
annoy. And yet it is unfair to measure
mans life by his misfortunes, becaus,
where there is one stalk of nightshad
there are fifty msrigolds and harebells
where there is one cloud tbundercharget
there are hundreds that stray across tn,
heavens, the glory of land and sky ASLEEP
in their BOSOM Because death came ant
took your child away did you immediatel!
forget all the five years or the ten years o.
the fifteen years in which she came ever.
night for kiss, all the tones Of your hear
pealing forth at the sound of her voice o.
the soft touch of her hand? Because il
some financial Euroclydon your fortune
went into the breakers, did you for get al
hose years in which the Injuries and ex
travagances of life shewered on your path
way? Alas! that is an rnwiss man, an an
grateful man, an unfair man, an unphilo-
sophie man, and, most of all, an unchristiar
man, who measures his life On earth by
groans and tears, and dyspsptic fit and
abuse and scorn and terror and neuralgia
thrust.
Again, I remark that there are many
people who estimate their life on earth by
the amount of money they have accumu-
lated. They say, "The year 1866, or 1876,
or 1886 was wasted" Why? Made no mo-
ney. Now, it is all cant and insincerity tc
talk against money as though it had no val
ne. 1t is refinement and education and ten
thousand blessed surroundings. 1t is the
spreading of the table that feeds your chill
dren's hunger. 1t is the lighting of the
furnace that keeps you warm. 1t is the
making of the bed on which you rest from
care and anxiety. 1t is the carrying out at
last of you to decent sepulture, and the put
ting up of the slab on which is chiselled
the story Of your Christian hope. tits SIM
ply hypocrisy, this TRADE in pulpit and lee,
ture hall against money, as though it had
no uses. 1t is hands, and feet, and sails,
and ten thousand grand and glorious enter
prises But while all this is so, he who
uses money or thinks of money as anything
but means to an end, will find cut his
mistake when the glittering treasures slip
out of his nerveless grasp, and he goes out
of this world without a shilling of money
or certificate of stock. He might better
have been the Christian porter that opened
his gate, OF the begrimed workman, who
last night heaved the coal into his cellar.
Bonds, and mortgages. and leases have
their use, but they make poor yardstick
with which to measure life. they that
boast themselves in their wealth, and trust
on the multitude of their riches, none of
them can, Dy any means, redeem his broth
er, nor give to God q. ransom for him, that
he should not see corruption. "Wise men
die, likewise the fool and the brutlsh person
perish, and leave their wealth TO othefs.
But L remark: There are many! wish
there were more-who estimate their lie
by their moral anc spiritual development.
1t is not sinful egotism for a Christian man
to say: 81 am purer than | used to be.
am more consecrated to Christ than used
TO De. nave got over great many OF the
bad habits IN which used TO indulge; l
am great deal better man IMAM useo TO
be" There Is no sinful egetism III thaS'
1t is not base egotlsm for soldier TO say;
II know more ABOUT military tactlcs than
l used to before l TOOK musKet 10 my
hand, and learned to present arms, and
when was pest to the driil-oftcer' Ii
is not base egotism tor a sailor to say: II
know how better to clew down the mlzzen
topsall than l used TO before nad ever seen
onp. ~ 'nto % 10 oi.i a.. o.4Iaa
aSn onii ia%' n9ins 'Ho ps.ov,o'
~ ene notu' ol Il 20" W. a, law s+ ~, 'os@
lng eowaius haVon VI e.eln%i a aee., says
kaow inoio aoou0 ap..aSuai t1'T .aoo,I' asnI
aooa' .om ",as NC On 4h .no.n oSeu
W; "ny' 'noio a. S;.,s .noeo IL oni0 plesenoe
VIM nase ne.aseioe 'rnHes MS wiz nay
loo, '1nu unnolSI ~. - ao 80 .- i..'
men mere, wno nase oeIom1 ~ na1,;. "''ny Th oy
naninelins "' tno ioi !; " oalaS aha:
stanu on an eneIeLy Ii4s,eno tSo paano =, oia,
aT'er iIon .nas VIZ. .y Snc~ ", an. ~,
Iney are msaslllhs tueir 'L,e he 'n oaon Dy
oaopa.ns, ny pens1oosea, lee I'd
ny ,n'l oo,usnonon - 'ab' .b 80 W
oap'is1nal lonls' W naenlSn E;; ~ 'iI eo,
Pc; ihey nTss rx siIou on d oln%i ou p;s%al ieo
IL tnuhder; iney naye I'VE, sGoou on lssa asd az
ill., aTu 1ooaeo otea otona % Iyar s and seen the
10y Ivy h,oS H%sS ''0Ta IT, on ~ H. parI.ha Aros
tloss o.s altu hI, '.lT .;nt ,,
a s,es VIZ ..hst On .non ee om. Tha ,iarl,es,
"Hu a,;ns. .pu;. o ~ 80 - ;aoaS;o.s 0 oa tLa
isht .no poth,ois, sou, az az 80 as of those
osei n.ntone, 4e oy .nT r,and @nod
VIZ n"rT To"e w pipo.a, q .',.S So
eneei. insy are uniy "aitins m aer 'no sH,e az
~ opon, ~ lnu hoa;n ,no "'N' W i"ii o-'
guy "
remark again: lhere are many tana
wish there were more9 who are estimating
llfe by the amount OF good they can DO
John Bradford said he counted that day
nothing at all IN which he had not, py per
'r tongue, done some good. Ii a man oe
9 IN right L cannot tell now many tears he
ma wipe away, now many burdens ne may
lift, how many orphans he may comfort,
how many outcasts he may reclaim. There
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